In Brief:
Should academic journals be in the business of selling content or should they be re-invented as not-for-profit knowledge portals and user communities, funded and regarded in similar ways as public media? This spring, a panel of experts gathered by Columbia University's Scholarly Communication Program considered the same questions. As Mike Rossner of Rockefeller University Press describes, at their scientific journals, the cost of publishing a single online scientific journal article is estimated at $10,000, raising the question, where will the funding for widespread open-access publishing come from?. Panelists: Mike Rossner, Executive Director of the Rockefeller University Press; Ivy Anderson, Director of Collection Development and Management at the California Digital Library; and Bettina Goerner, Manager, Open Access for Springer. Date: March 9, 2010 Sponsor: Columbia University Scholarly Communication Program.
